Gate Piers And Courtyard Wall Adjoining Truthall And Truthall House

SW 62 NE SITHNEY

5/268 Gate piers and courtyard wall 10.7.57 adjoining Truthall and Truthall House GV II*

Gate piers and flanking walls. C17. Granite ashlar with dressed granite plinth and copings. Rubble at rear. Plan: 2 square-on-plan gate piers with ashlar-fronted wall at either side, fronting a roughly rectangular courtyard and the gateway is almost aligned with the entrance doorway of the 1642 range of Truthall qv. The courtyard is cobbled and slopes down away from the gateway; along the middle of the courtyard is a dressed granite flagged path of rounded-on-plan stones which reach as far as a granite kerb at right angles to the doorway of the through passage of Truthall qv. The courtyard wall adjoins and appears to be integral with (at the rear) the corner of Truthall House qv. and the right hand wall adjoins the corner of Truthall at the higher end of the hall with a straight joint between. The walls each have a plinth and round-top copings; the gate piers have moulded plinths, plain ashlar shafts which rise higher than the walls and moulded cornices to ramped pyramidal caps surmounted by ball finials. These fine walls and gate piers are complete and form a most prominant feature. The way that they link to the house and relate to the courtyard helps to explain the plan development of the house.

Listing NGR: SW6547030200